Phong Điền (town)

Phong Điền town Thị xã Phong Điền
District-level town (Class-4)
Entrance to Phước Tích village.
Phong Điền town Thị xã Phong Điền
Coordinates: 16°35′00″N 107°21′51″E / 16.5833°N 107.3641°E / 16.5833; 107.3641
Country	Vietnam
Region	North Central Coast
Municipality	Huế
Central hall	Phong Thu ward
Government
• Type	Rural district
Area
• Total	954 km2 (368 sq mi)
Population  (2003)
• Total	105,017
• Density	110/km2 (290/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+07:00 (Indochina Time)

Phong Điền is a district-level town of Huế city in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam.

On March 11, 1977, the district was merged with those of Hương Trà and Quảng Điền to become the district of Hương Điền in the province of Bình Trị Thiên (1976–89). On September 29, 1990, Hương Điền was redivided into the three original districts and put in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.^[1]

Phong Điền has 15 communes : Điền Hương, Điền Môn, Phong Bình, Phong Chương, Điền Lộc, Phong Hòa, Điền Hòa, Phong Hải, Điền Hải, Phong Mỹ, Phong Thu, Phong Hiền, Phong An, Phong Xuân, Phong Sơn.

The rural district covers an area of 954 km².

It borders Quảng Trị province and Hương Trà district. Besides, it has a varied geography with mountains, plains and coastline on the South China Sea.

The district was the homeland of Nguyễn Tri Phương, the general who commanded the Nguyễn dynasty's army in the 1850s and 1860s when the French began their colonisation of Indochina, and Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, the anti-colonial poet.

The district was created by Emperor Minh Mệnh in 1834 as part of the then province of Thuận Hóa.

As of 2003, the district had a population of 105,017.^[2]